diff --git a/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities.md b/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities.md index 5b3e94a8..84b45f15 100644 --- a/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities.md +++ b/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities.md @@ -5,9 +5,15 @@ title: Pre-Kickstart Activities # Pre-Kickstart Activities -The pre-Kickstart activities are a new concept we are introducing for SR2025. They use our simulator for a set of activities intended to be completed between registration and Kickstart. These will teach some core concepts of robotics and introduce some basic sensors that teams could use on their physical robots. +The pre-Kickstart activities were first included for SR2025 to introduce the concepts of autonomous robotics that can be completed prior to receiving your kit or this year's game being announced. They use our simulator for a set of activities intended to be completed between registration and Kickstart. These will teach some core concepts of robotics and introduce some basic sensors that teams could use on their physical robots. We recommend you work through them as a team, so you can learn from each other. If you have any issues, just ask us on [Discord](/docs/tutorials/discord). -You can access the [the activities here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Kt72gt__4len23zyeAXD-qkSsHw72Il7PjfBgGqwnU/preview). +This year's activities will be available shortly and we will contact all team supervisors when they are released. + +## The Simulated Robot + +The robot used for the pre-Kickstart activities differs from the robot used in the regular simulator to have more of a focus on sensing the environment around the robot and lacks any mechanisms for picking up other objects. + +All sensors attached to the Arduino are the same, but there are no servos on this robot. diff --git a/simulator/setting_up_simulator.md b/simulator/setting_up_simulator.md index 0ea04999..dde17439 100644 --- a/simulator/setting_up_simulator.md +++ b/simulator/setting_up_simulator.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Setting up the Simulator ## Required Software In order to use the simulator a few set-up steps need to be done. -First you need to install Python 3, between 3.9 and 3.12, and Webots R2023b. +First you need to install Python 3, between 3.9 and 3.12, and Webots R2025a. Python 3.13 is not currently supported by the simulator. To install Python, you can download the latest version from the [Python website](https://www.python.org/downloads/). If you have already installed Python from a package manager, such as homebrew on MacOS, apt on Ubuntu, or the Windows store on Windows, you can skip this step. @@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ To install Webots, you can download the latest version from the [Webots website] ## Simulator Bundle -Once you have installed these, you need to download our [simulator bundle](https://github.com/srobo/sbot_simulator/releases/download/2025.1.1/sbot-simulator-2025.1.1.zip). +Once you have installed these, you need to download our simulator bundle. The bundle for the main competition will be released at Kickstart. This is a zip file containing the arena and the necessary files to allow the sr-robot3 library to be used in the simulator.
-The simulator bundle used for the [Pre-Kickstart Activities]({{ site.baseurl }}/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities) is available [here](https://github.com/srobo/sbot_simulator/releases/download/2025.0.1/sbot-simulator-2025.0.1.zip). +The simulator bundle used for the [Pre-Kickstart Activities]({{ site.baseurl }}/competitor_resources/pre_kickstart_activities) is available [here](https://github.com/srobo/sbot_simulator/releases/download/2026.0.1/sbot-simulator-2026.0.1.zip).
Once this has downloaded, extract the contents to an empty folder.